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So long as that flag ripples above our end of the Capitol, the passing stranger knows that the Senate is engaged in loyal service to the Republic.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “So long as that flag ripples above our end of the Capitol, the passing stranger knows that the Senate is engaged in…”
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This statement reflects Sumner's belief that the presence of the national flag signifies the Senate's commitment to serving the Republic.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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